Matching Volume Levels on Multiple Finished Videos

[carlan38652122]

Hello everyone. I'm wondering if there is an easy way to load multiple videos and match the volume equally, or do I have to go into each project file and create some sort of audio preset then export individually. Or is there a better way in Audition? Thanks so much!

[zip91436]

I've been looking into finding a solution for that exact situation.  I considered the Premiere Effects Output settings on Export where the Loudness circuit could be engaged to conform to one of the standards.  I also considered putting all the clips on a timeline, selecting all the audio clips from there and right clicking to set them all to normalize the levels.  I also watched YouTube tutorials on using the Tube Model Compressor and also the Multi-Band Compressor to achieve this equal volume across all the clips.  I intended to get the volume the sameon all and then slice up the timeline and re-export each individual clip separately to distribute them.  I will give these methods a try.

[chrisw44157881]

multiband compression reduces dynamic range. its kinda a sledgehammer. you'd want to first RMS -23 film -16 web as natural voice talking will automatically fall around -10, -12 db for good dynamic range without clipping and leaves room for loud sounds.

for multiple clips, this can be done in a batch process in audition diagnostic tab RMS and LUFS

premiere's essential sound panel automatch feature only supports LUFs not RMS(don't ask me why). Then manually tweak the widely average sounds with gain or volume slider. then finally multiband compress and bs1770 standard. LUFS is a weighted average over time and can be widely different, but in 80% of cases of normal dialogue it should work farely well in premiere without doing the RMS first.  normalizing doesn't work well if there is large dynamic range and i consider it useless for matching clips as it will read a single spike and call the whole audio clip 0db normalized. RMS -23 then minor volume tweaking and audio cleaning, then finally bs1770 is the best way to go imho for professional audio. I haven't gotten into the cleaning process as that is a whole topic in itself.